Chess opening
Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Spassky VariationD87
The Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Spassky Variation is a chess opening classified under ECO code D87. It is reached after the moves:
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 O-O
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
Comes from
Main continuations
Related lines in the Grünfeld Defense
- Grünfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, Burille Variation, Reversed Tarrasch (A56)
- Grünfeld Defense (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Gibbon Gambit (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Lundin Variation (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Lutikov Variation (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Lutikov Variation, Murrey Attack (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Stockholm Variation (D80)
- Grünfeld Defense: Zaitsev Gambit (D80)
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